Labour Court will not allow Shakes Mashaba to snarl up Safa’s hiring process
The possibility that former Bafana Bafana coach Ephraim Shakes Mashaba might be reinstated does not give him the right to stop the South African Football Association (Safa) from hiring his replacement‚ the Labour Court said. On Tuesday the court dismissed Mashaba’s application to prevent Safa from hiring a new head coach. He had asked the Labour Court to halt the process until his unfair dismissal challenge at the Commission for Conciliation‚ Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) is finalised. Mashaba was fired as national team coach in December after a disciplinary committee found him guilty of gross misconduct‚ insubordination and violating Safa’s communications policy. This followed the then coach’s public outburst in November in Polokwane‚ where he had a go at Safa bosses and the media following his side’s 2-1 victory over Senegal in the second match of the 2018 Fifa World Cup qualifying rounds. In his judgment‚ Judge Robert Lagrange said the fact that the CCMA might impose a reinsta...
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